Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29907776-20180617022636/@comment-27126610-20181025024052

Considering like half the demons in DMC have the tag somewhere in their history "Got their ass kicked by Sparda" I think it'd be fun to have his history, if just a brief summary in a game manual somewhere.

Also something nobody here seems to have pointed out, the Sparda sword contains only most of Sparda's power, not all of it. Can't have put all of it in there, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to take on Argosax. And we know Argosax was a lot more recent since Matier was alive when it happened and as far as we know she's pure human, while the whole business with Mundus and sealing the Temen-ni-gru was two millenia earlier. If the sparda sword contained *all* of Sparda's demonic power, he probably would have died of old age long before facing Argosax. That means when Dante used it to defeat Mundus he was not using 100% of Sparda's power, just a majority. Even with that boost, Dante and Mundus were about easily matched. So, baseline, Sparda at his absolute 100% far eclipses Dante as of DMC 1, probably still a bit stronger even with the Sparda sword's power. Considering Dante at his strongest easily accomplished a task his father did with most of his power sealed, we don't really have any evidence Dante has surpassed Sparda besides a passing comment from Griffon, who we don't even know Sparda concretely fought, and who was very rapidly dying at the time so I can't imagine he was in his right mind.